How to create a presentation with PowerPoint

PowerPoint is the most useful tool used worldwide for the making presentations in Slideway, combining images, text, music or animations. How to create a presentation with PowerPoint 2019 from our site? We give you step by step instructions for learning presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint.

How to create a presentation with
PowerPoint

Didactic utility of the presentations

– They allow
us to communicate information and ideas in an organized and attractive way.

– They
constitute an essential support of the oral presentations, both from teachers as
of students.

– They
attract the attention of our audience and increase your motivation

Didactic uses of the presentations

– Expose to
colleagues a work done in Classroom.

– Collect
the work done throughout the course school.

– Introduce
a topic.

– Explain an
activity with text and illustrations.

– Create
stories with illustrations.

– Create a
tutorial about some tool.

– Make an
interactive questionnaire.

– Create a
travel diary, with text, photographs and videos, of an excursion made during
the course.

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Options)

There are several options:

– Use any of
the templates default shown just enters the program.

– Create a
presentation with our own style from a blank document.

– Start from
scratch and choose some of the existing topics in the tab Design.

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(First slide – configuration)

We create a presentation from a
document in White:

– We assign
the first slide to enter data as title, author, description…

– We give
you a personal background in the Design tab> Background format.

– Once the
background is determined (type of filling, color …) click on Apply to everything,
so that from now on all the slides use it.

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Add new slide)

We add a new
slide:

– We click
on Start> New slide.

– Several
formats are presented, although we can

Choose to
insert a blank slide to design it ourselves.

– We can
paste text from another document directly, without the need for enter text box,
using the Ctrl keys

+ C (Copy)
and Ctrl + V (Paste).

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Add new slide)

– Click on
Insert> Text box, we move the pointer to the slide and, Without letting go,
we draw a picture with the desired dimensions, we can vary moving with the
mouse the points of selection of the ends.

– To set the
text (size, color and typography), we previously selected it and, on the ribbon
or in the window emergent that appears, we select the Timely commands: font,
size, color, bold, italic…

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Insert multimedia materials)

In addition to text, we can include multimedia materials in the Insert tab, choosing the desired option:

● Images of
our team or the Web

●
Screenshots

● Forms

● Graphics

● Videos

● Sounds

● Recordings
of our screen computer

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Insert image)

To incorporate an image we proceed as
follows:

● We click
on Insert, we locate the image in one of the folders Our team, double click or
button Open, and we place it in the place wanted.

● When
selecting the image and press on the Right mouse button activates the contextual
menu that will allow us modify its position, size, format, style…

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Insert video)

PowerPoint 2016 allows us insert a
video in two ways different:

● From our
team: there will be inserted in the presentation.

● From YouTube
or another website: the video will be displayed on the presentation only if we
have Internet connection on the computer in which it is reproduced.

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Insert sound)

We can add
music from background to our presentation inserting an audio, effects of sound
or voice recordings.

We click on
Insert> Audio, and we choose between “Audio on my PC “(I select
the file of my team’s sound) or “Record audio” (record directly sound
on the presentation).

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Insert notes)

We can also
add notes to the slides (the calls “Speaker’s notes”) that we will
serve as support in our presentation. We click on the Notes icon from the
bottom bar of the screen and we wrote the text that want to visualize them, we
activate the View Page of notes.

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Transitions)

PowerPoint
2106 presents different ways to pass the slides:

– Manually,
by clicking with the mouse.

–
Automatically: click on the tab Transitions> after, and we set the value in
seconds (for example: 00: 06.00 indicates 6 seconds)… To make it extend to
all the slides, we click on Apply to everything. We can also set a duration
time different on a slide isolated.

Add
transitions to the different slides can add attractiveness to a presentation,
but you can also incorporate unnecessary noise that distracts of its content.

– It is not
advisable if we go to share our presentation in Internet. The only recommended
would be “Dispel”.

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Save)

In the file
menu we choose “Save as”. It will be saved in the format: PPTX, Which
only you can open with the PowerPoint versions 2007/2016. To be fit with all
versions we use “Presentation of PowerPoint 97-2003 (*. ppt) “.

Another option is to save it using the format: PPSX or PPS, which when executing starts immediately the reproduction. For that in Type select the option: “Presentation with PowerPoint slides (* .ppsx) “.

Create a presentation with PowerPoint
(Save as video)

So that our
presentation reaches more people, we can turn it into a video and upload it to
YouTube:

– After
using the method “Save as “, in Type we select the Option:
“Windows Media Video (*. wmv) “.

– We hope
that the creation of the file, and upload the video to our YouTube account.